Tania Schlatter

Design Leadership for Digital Products & Communications

I help teams decide what and how to design using a strategic, human-centered approach, and deep visual interface, interaction, and communication design experience. I collaborate with stakeholders, technical, and product managers,
facilitate and conduct research, direct and test prototypes, plan and organize information, and lead visual UI system design for complex digital products and communications.

Research & Design

Story map for new Dataverse features

UI recommendations based on user research

User research and recommendations for facilitating large document set text analysis for researchers using the Consilience web app

Information Architecture for Harvard Dataverse

Defining content and structure for a custom Home page and supporting sites for Harvard Dataverse

Teaching

Interactive Information Design 2

Students observe interactions and information needs in a public space and design ways to improve them. Shown: "MFan" concept for enhancing a visit to Boston's MFA, by Matt Salerno

Designing Infographics

Students work with datasets to find insights and design visual data stories. Shown: Evolution of Female Participation in the Summer Olympics by Natasha Taylor

Interaction Design 1

Students learn interaction design principles through project work. They conduct user research and develop a concept for a responsive web application, including html/css coding and UI design. Shown: Memory Box by Tia Thompson

Visual Usability Book

I co-wrote "Visual Usability: Principles and Practices for Designing Digital Applications" to help web application designers and developers understand visual interface characteristics and how to make them appeal to, communicate with, and work successfully for people. Published in English and Chinese.

My co-author and I have presented professional workshops based on the principles in the book at the International UXPA conference and to Boston CHI.